The Woodruffs: Machiasport Maine 1861 emmigrate to West

marrying Anna Gertrude Flick (b 1848 New Castle Delaware,d. 1888) father a BlackSmith in Delaware, named William Flick, his biography bears so little resemblance to the census records that one wonders if he wasnt a bit of a fraud (forgive me!). He was born In Pennsylvania, so was probably pennsylvania dutch.

When Horatio and Annie lived in Gold Hill, they started as stable and kitchen hands. in (1868-1870) But he was a miner by 1875 and rented out to others by the late 1870s. Horatio probably had land in Montana and certainly did in Idaho.

William Woodruff, his older brother, and later Aaron Woodruff his other brother came out and lived in . William and Horatio stayed in the West, Aaron returned, and Sarah never ventured west dying at a young age of 28?

THE LAST GENERATION OF WOODRUFFS BEFORE LEAVING THE EAST COAST FOR THE GOLD FIELDS1760-1860 Machiasport Maine: California and Nevada 1866-1880, Montana 1910Note: The last of our generations to live in Machias were Earl and Otis. abt 1800-1880. Otis's oldest son Aaron, had a son who went on to be a chemist graduating Brown University (William O. Woodruff)

Private Jonathan Woodruff: 1730-1790 The Great Great Grandfather of William Hyram Woodruff of Butte Montana: THE ELDEST HISTORICALLY PROVABLE WOODRUFF ANCESTOR: Emerges in the historical record as the recipient of a land grant in Cornwallis Nova Scotia, around 1762, and likely was married in Scarborough to the Widow Ackley, depending on whether her lands in Cornwallis were owned by her former husband before his death (Mr. Benajah Ackley).

Personal Note to Portland Hagens" Interestingly the Gruetter's are descended from Benajah on Belle
Babb's side, but I believe he too had a first wife so I believe there
is no shared blood.Private Daniel Meserve: 1730-1790 The OTHER Great Great Grandfather: THE ELDEST HISTORICALLY PROVABLE WOODRUFF ANCESTOR:

Prior to 1760. Jonathan Woodruff is the only of the Woodruff ancestors that were not part of the emmigration of 1765 from Scarborough Maine which had severe fires and drought, and Machias. He must have married Widow Ackley in Scarborough, but the most likely place for him to have originated is Connecticut. He was with the Longfellows so perhaps there origins might also shed light unless they passed through Scarsborough en route to Nova Scotia.

-1860 Machiasport Maine: California and Nevada 1866-1880, Montana 1910
Note: The last of our generations to live in Machias were Earl and Otis. abt 1800-1880.
Otis's oldest son Aaron, had a son who went on to be a chemist graduating Brown University (William O. Woodruff)

Gen 1: Jonathan Woodruff A "Cornwallis Nova Scotia Man", along with grandson of H.W. Longfellow, moved To Machias Maine 1765 b. 1730 ? MArried Lurana Gill or Lurana Bill or Laurania Gill, the widower of Benajah Ackley, of Scarborough, Maine, moved to Machias, Maine after a time in Cornwallis Nova Scotia. Jonathan Woodruff's earliest known whereabouts was COrnwallis Nova ScotiaWas a belligerent against the Crown.Gen 2: Jonathan Woodruff b. 1770 ? Machias Maine.Gen 3: Otis and Earl Woodruff born 1799.Gen 4: Horatio and his cousin ? James William Or James Warren - neighbors in Gold Hill. Horatios brother Aaron stays on the East Coast, and his sister Sarah born 1835 I cannot find after 1870.Gen 5: William Hyram WoodruffGen 6: Gertrude Marie Woodruff

Generation 1:

ii Anna, [b prob Scarborough], m abt
1774-75 (first child b. 3 Nov 1775, per Jackman’s Machias, p. 6)
Benajah Ackley (Machias Memorial, p. 166), b 1754-55 (from ae at death)
prob son of Benajah & Lurana (Gill) Ackley of Lebanon CT (see
discussion below), d. Whiting 16 May 1830, ae 75 y (Eastport Sentinel,
p. 106, issue of 2 Jun 1830; his death date listed as 16 May “1829” in
Whiting VT). [Benajah Ackley’s parentage is not found in any single
document, however a strong case can be built that he was the son of
Benajah Ackley of East Haddam CT who m Lebanon CT 21 May 1747 Lurana
Bill (Rev. Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on
Ancient Church Records Prior to 1900, Fifth Book [1968], p. 43). Lurana
moved to Cornwallis NS about 1760-61-her husband either dying before or
shortly after the move, as Lurana was undoubtedly the “Lawrence” Akley
listed as one of the original grantees of land in Cornwallis along with
her brother Amos Bill and other members of the Bill family (Arthur
Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia
[1910], p. 74). Lurana m (2) [prob in NS] Jonathan Woodruff, this being
proven by a land conveyance dated 22 May 1765 in which Jonathan and
“Laurania” sold land that “was granted to the said Laurania Woodruff
(before her marriage with the said Jonathan Woodruff by the name of
Laurania Ackley). . .” (FHL film #567, 506, Deeds at Cornwallis, NS,
vols. 1 and 2, 1764-1792, p. 20, recorded instrument 18). Jonathan
Woodruff and his wife and children moved to Machias by 1769, as
evidenced by his signature on a petition of Machias residents (Drisko’s
Machias, p. 20). As Benajah is the only Ackley found in Maine before
1790, and with the repetition of the unusual name Benajah, it is likely
that he was a son of Lurana (Bill) (Ackley) Woodruff by her 1st
marriage. Furthermore, Samuel Holmes, Anna’s father, owned 2 marsh lots
situated on Woodruff Cove in Machias, suggesting the Woodruffs lived in
Machias near the Holmes’s and Ackley’s (John Cooper, chief appraiser,
“Record of Valuations of Houses & Lands in the 2nd District, 1st
Division, Massachusetts 1799” [MS, MHS Coll. 1269, Vol 3]).]

THE LONGFELLOW FAMILY

Jonathan1 Longfellow
(Nathan, William,) a first cousin once removed of the grandfather of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, was born May 23, 1714, and Oct. 28, 1731, m.
Mercy Clark, b. Oct. 28, 1731. In 1760 he removed from Nottingham, N. H., to
Cornwallis, but in 1765 went to Machias, Me., where
he spent the rest of his life, and died. Other Cornwallis
men who went to Machias were, Jone Pineo, Archelaus Hammond, Jabez West,
and Jonathan Woodruff. Before he left Cornwallis Mr. Longfellow sold his property to his son
Nathan. Children:

William Hyram Woodruff's parents were Anna Gertrude Flick of New Jersey, daughter of a blacksmith, and Horatio E. Woodruff.

Horatio E Woodruff born March of 1836 to as late as 1838 in
Machias Maine, father of William Hyram Woodruff. In the history of
Montana he is cited as having come from Machiasport Maine, and census
records where we can positively ID William H and Horatio E along with
his wife Anne Gertrude Flick (I Believe the G is Gertrude) in Gold Hill
Nevada.

TRACING HORATIO TO MAINE:

In Gold Hill, two Woodruffs from Maine lived side by side, James Warren
or James William. sometimeAnd Horatio both from Maine. This is in 1870.
We know they passed through California because WIlliam Hyram's older
sibling Frank was born in 1866 in California. This corresponds with
the Histiory Of Montana. Horatio came through California, and he
probably met Annie Flick in California. Horatio had 1 brother Aaron, if
the Horatio of Gold Hill is indeed the Horatio of Machias Maine.Aaron was still living in Machias in 1880

The J W Woodruff born in 1830 in Machias Maine and who married Nelly and moved to California, what was his relation to Horatio ? Horatio appears to be the son of Sarah Meserve and Otis Woodruff. This K W Woodruff or James Warren Woodruff, or

THE WOODRUFF AND ASCHENBACH FAMILIES OF 1910 BUTTE and their descendents: William Woodruff and Catherine Anna Aschenbach had two children

Marie Hoenneger and Eric

William Hyram Woodruff and Catherine Anna Aschenbach had two children:

William Woodruff (Killed in a tobaganing accident at 13)Gertrude Marie Woodruff